巨萬

See also: 巨万

Chinese

		very large; huge; tremendous very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic	ten thousand; a great number; surname
trad. (巨萬/鉅萬)		巨/鉅	萬
simp. (巨万)		巨	万

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jùwàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ ㄨㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jùwàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ ㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyùwàn
    • Wade–Giles: chü⁴-wan⁴
    • Yale: jyù-wàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuhwann
    • Palladius: цзюйвань (czjujvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ wän⁵¹/

Noun

巨萬

1. (archaic) lots; a ton; a huge amount

   • 京師之錢累巨萬，貫朽而不可校。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     京师之钱累巨万，贯朽而不可校。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Jīngshī zhī qián lěi jùwàn, guàn xiǔ ér bùkě xiào. [Pinyin]

     In the capital the strings of cash had been stacked up by myriads of myriads until the cords that bound them had rotted away and they could no longer be counted.